Seriously, as long as we must have profit in order to justify our getting out of bed and doing anything productive, we are going to continue paving that broad road with our good intentions. Profit is the first dribbling of Greed. Why do I have to have just a little bit more than you have in order to make my creative juices run?
When I see a little 5 year old girl running bare foot down a rubble strewn slum street do I think, "How can I turn that little girls misfortune into a buck?" The Capitalist would follow the girl home and try selling her mother a pair of cheap shoes(made in China),.
What should we do to bring that little girl into a better world? In today's world that little girl will grow up selling her body for a quick fix. She may have a dozen babies, some of which will also grow up in despair. If we turn our back and say, "It's her problem. There's nothing I can do to help people who won't help themselves". We are merely assisting that little girl to her doom.
We have not only allowed the Empire Builders to have their way, but we have been playing their game, grabbing what crumbs fall from their plate, and justifying our own greed by saying, "What else can I do? I can't change it so I might as well get what I can."
No! Any little bit of our Capitalist system still causing us to seek just a little profit from our labors will doom us to return into a Maelstrom of our own making.
Curious Carl
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